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An NHS nurse was left feeling upset and embarrassed after customers outside Aldi made snide comments about her when she used her NHS card to avoid a large queue.

According to the Liverpool Echo, the woman had just finished a 13-hour night shift at a children's hospital.

She stopped at Aldi at around 7.55am on Monday, March 31.

Coronavirus social distancing measures mean long queues have formed outside some supermarkets as stores seek to limit the number of customers entering at a time - but Aldi has announced that NHS workers do not need to stand in line.

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The woman said: "I had just finished work and the girls had said to me Aldi opens at 8am and the NHS don't have to stand in the queue.

"I got there, got out of my car and there was a big queue. I walked over and there was a security guard standing there. I said 'where do I stand?' and said I was NHS and showed him my card, so he said 'stand here'.

"And then the comments from people in the queue, they started saying 'oh yeah, we're all NHS here', 'so what NHS that's your job.' There were about six or seven of them saying things, and I didn't answer back because I thought it would just fuel it."

The nurse was so upset by the incident that she rushed around the store and left.

She even received snide comments as she left the store, hearing one woman say: "There she is, I know the NHS do a good job but so what?"

These comments come just days after the nation stepped outside and clapped for the NHS, thanking them for their hard work.

The nurse said: "I couldn't believe it. After feeling so humbled the other night.

"After the clapping for the NHS, to being abused this morning from a few people who haven't a clue what I had endured on my night shift.

"It's just horrible, people just don't know."

The nurse said she "cried all the way home" calling the reaction of the customers "very sad".

The woman said relatives and members of her extended family have died of the coronavirus.

She said: "This disease, if it is as bad as they say, at some point is going to touch a lot of people's lives, whether it is a neighbour, a close family member, it is going to affect each and every one of us.

"But for the NHS staff, it does not feel as if we get the same respect as we used to."

Nurses and others - employed by the NHS and any other part of health and care - we have never needed them more.So let’s show them some love, and create a living map of gratitude from every corner of Britain.By dropping a hearton this map,you’re saying you appreciate the efforts undertaken daily in the NHS.